This past weekend I got into a heated verbal conflict with my sister-in-law. My family almost never fights, but it happened – well done me – and it only stopped because my mom said: (in an angelic voice) “Okay, time for a new conversation.” The fight left both my sister-in-law and I upset. No, I’m … [Read more...]

Every night before I go to bed I sit on my couch and do some type of journaling and reading to decompress from the day. It’s at this time that my cat, the one who baptized me with his nose cannon as described in last week’s post, usually joins me. He loves to sleep on my lap, which is a practical … [Read more...]

My cat has a cold, or at least the feline equivalent of a cold. He has a stuffed up nose and sneezes. He doesn’t have a sexier meow (a sexier voice is the one bonus of having a cold... the gravelly, want-to-be Barry White voice not the stuffed up, nasally voice like someone shoved their fingers … [Read more...]

Over the years I have seen men and women sullen and forlorn sitting for who knows how long under the glare of judgment. These people would be treated as if they were diseased. When others walked by them, the others would take a step or two away as they passed. I remember one particular time I was … [Read more...]

I was recently out with a friend, and in the background of the one store we were in, I heard a song I hadn’t heard before. After a few moments I asked the person with me: “Do you know who this is?” She replied: “Yes,” and then looked at me in the condescending manner women are so good at; guys … [Read more...]

In respect to the recently passed Halloween, the day Jesus dressed up his Apostles as vampires and said: “This is my blood, drink it...” I wanted to continue talking about the scariest people I know, U.S. customs agents.
(I was joking about Jesus dressing up his Apostles as vampires... hopefully … [Read more...]

I have a request for the so-called men out there who do this – I’m aware that these are the men least likely to read this article... they’re also the least likely to be able to read... but guys, pleasssse, stop wearing your baseball hat like a tuque... because, well, it’s not a tuque; it’s a hat. … [Read more...]

Why are hotel beds like a shallow canoe? I’m yet to sleep in a pay-for-the-night bed without it being more like a hammock than a mattress. Why is that? Do hotels get to order from a special category of beds in the shape of a banana: “Hi, I’d like to order from the squishy fruit addition?” Even a … [Read more...]